'We need a global New Deal, but we cannot afford to wait for a catastrophe to cause it' - Yorkshire Post

[Oxfam's head of research, Duncan Green] warns that climate change could halt such progress in the future, and he has little time for global warming sceptics. "Just because it's fashionable doesn't mean it's wrong," he says.

Annual carbon emission levels are estimated to be about 20 tonnes per person in the United States, and three tonnes in China. But Green believes we need to get down to an average of about one tonne per person per year, if we are going to stave off the ravages of climate change. And to do so, he says, will require huge technological improvements.